Across
- 3. mathematical object with magnitude and direction
- 5. the displacement divided by the time over which displacement occurs under constant acceleration
- 6. the total distance traveled divided by elapsed time
- 8. the velocity at a specific instant or time point
- 11. the degree to which a measured value agrees with an accepted reference value for that measurement
- 12. the difference between the measured value and a given standard or expected value
- 13. length of a vector
- 16. science concerned with describing the interactions of energy, matter, space, and time; especially interested in what fundamental mechanisms underlie every phenomenon
- 17. the location of an object at a particular time
- 18. a number, synonymous with a scalar quantity in physics
- 21. change in position
- 22. the description of motion through properties such as position, time, velocity, and acceleration
- 23. the state of movement that results from gravitational force only
Down
- 1. two vectors with directions that differ by exactly 90 degrees
- 2. the rate of change in velocity; the change in velocity over time
- 4. two vectors with exactly the same direction angles
- 7. the absolute value of the instantaneous velocity
- 9. the degree to which repeated measurements agree with each other
- 10. representation of something often too difficult (or impossible) to display directly
- 14. a quantitative measure of how much measured values deviate from one another
- 15. the sum of individual displacements over a given time period
- 19. testable explanation for patterns in nature supported by scientific evidence and verified multiple times by various groups of researchers
- 20. quantity of dimension 1 or a pure number
- 24. description, using concise language or a mathematical formula, of a generalized pattern in nature supported by scientific evidence and repeated experiments